"Wife?" Selene scoffed, with an expression twisted in ridiculousness. "Are you even in your sane mind? What are you talking about?" she laughed, shaking her head as if she had just heard the biggest joke of her life.
"..." Olivia remained silent. She didn't know what more she could say.
No official announcement had been made, true —but what she had heard was no rumour.
Aiden Winslow had personally attended an auction just before his return home —one where he bid to buy a woman's jewellery. That alone was enough to confirm everything.
"Aiden can't marry anyone," Selene said firmly, but her words sounded more like self-reassurance than conviction. "How can he have a wife? He can't."
She turned to look at Olivia, her eyes almost pleading, waiting for her to refute her own statement —to tell her that this was all some twisted misunderstanding.
However, when she saw Olivia simply standing there without speaking a word, her fury rose tenfold.
